Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...communal barracks. In Honan two-thirds of the province's 10 million children are now being cared for in communal nurseries, and in some of the older communes "people's mess halls" have already become, the Reds boast, "almost the only place one can eat." Instead of turning to his wife when his trousers need mending, the good commune member now takes his problem to the "sewing brigade." The result, declares Peking, is that 20 million women in seven provinces now find themselves "freed" to contribute the family pots and pans to a scrap-metal drive and turn...
...about 200 scripts a year), Stevens still finds time to raise funds for the Democratic National Committee. He is an ardent Adlai Stevenson backer and gives him a good chance to win the 1960 nomination. But if he should be offered a Washington job, Stevens is certain he will turn it down: "In Washington you have to work your tail off all the time. You don't even dare take a drink down there...
With such manpower on tap, the Japanese press can turn loose hordes of newsmen, gives the cops more trouble than the rioters at demonstrations. Japanese photographers vault graves and straddle coffins to get good shots of mass funerals. A reporter once got into Premier Nobusuke Kishi's bedroom. In addition, Japanese papers use flashy modern trappings such as airplanes, walkie-talkies and monotypes that can set some 2,200 Japanese syllabaries and Chinese ideographs...
...Spartan Stuff. To prepare for the oldsters whose sheer numbers will revolutionize not only the practice of medicine but also the world's social, political and economic structure, gerontologists turn both to their test tubes and to individuals like Amos Alonzo Stagg. From him and the men on nearby rungs of time's ladder they hope to learn what are the common denominators in longevity-and, more especially, in useful longevity. For they subscribe to the motto: "Not just to add years to life, but to add life to years...
Died. Maurice de Vlaminck, 82, earthy celebrator in paint of storm-clouded landscapes, a leader (with Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault) of the flamboyant Fauves (wild beasts) who shocked Paris art circles near the century's turn; at his farmhouse near Paris. The son of musician parents, husky Maurice worked intermittently as a factory hand, bicycle racer and gypsy fiddler, turned intently to painting in his 205 after his first awed exposure to the explosive colors of Van Gogh and a chance meeting with Fauve-to-be Andre Derain. Vlaminck became famous overnight after shrewd Dealer Ambroise Vollard bought...